2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The best defense against guilt is to be innocent. Children at the sight of an angry parent often say “I didn’t do that,” not even suspecting how he angered his parent. Such actions use the mechanism of denial. Their value lies in the fact that they help a person avoid punishment without the need to change their behavior.
Rationalization is an effective defense against guilt. Rationalization is an attempt by a person to maintain self-esteem by rationalizing the wrongness of their actions. Rationalizations help to minimize the feeling of guilt, reject moral responsibility. If you convince yourself that the other person is wrong, you can then justify your own aggressive or irresponsible behavior as natural. A person who uses rationalization may even feel moral superiority - their righteousness, not sinfulness.
Some people defend themselves against guilt by never showing aggression towards others. These people are confident that they are not entitled to their own needs. They feel free from guilt only when they sacrifice their needs and desires. Such people give up so much in themselves that their entire identity revolves around meeting the expectations of others. Such people often fail to draw the line between self-care and selfishness. Most people can distinguish between these concepts. Guilt seekers live with the attitude that any manifestation of self-care should be viewed as a manifestation of selfishness. Accordingly, such people expect punishment from others when it happens that their need is being met.
Obsessive thoughts are a frequent defense against guilt. People with these thinking patterns can spend a lot of time thinking about actions before doing anything. It is so important for them to protect themselves from moral decline that any behavior must be carefully thought out. Compulsiveness is a behavioral addition to compulsive thinking. The compulsive personality finds certain repetitive patterns that serve to reduce chronic guilt.
The goal of not feeling guilty can be a projection, a person projects his aggressive urges onto others. Such a person throws out his aggressiveness, which makes it possible to reduce guilt for hidden unacceptable impulses.
Finding excessive punishment is another way to avoid feeling guilty. The person using this protection is really looking for punishment for their wrongdoing. Such people can develop obsessive behaviors by endlessly confessing, regularly talking to therapists and friends about the bad things they have done.
Intellectualization is another defense against guilt. The intellectualizer cuts off most of the senses. Such people are able to talk a lot about their behavior and be aware of their guilt, but not associate these thoughts with the corresponding feelings or behavior in this case. The guilty intellectualizer will carefully analyze the problem, dissect it and put it back, but will not be able to feel guilty.
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